BENEFITS OF ACTION VIDEO GAMES IN REAL LIFE WITH EXAMPLE

BENEFITS OF ACTION VIDEO GAMES

BENEFITS OF ACTION VIDEO GAMES IN REAL LIFE WITH EXAMPLE

There are lots of types of video games in the world. If we category them then it will be around twenty types of games at this moment. Among these 21 types of games the most playing games are action games. Action games are more popular with teenagers than older gamers. 

Action games are the games in which players are the center of attention alone. It has two types of positions in the games. One is the FIRST PERSON, the other one is the THIRD PERSON. Though it has different playing or viewing positions, both are cencern of main character.

There are several research teams working on the effects of video games. Some of the studies have already proved that playing video games moderately affects the human brain positively. Recently finished research by the New International Research along with University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland team has found that action video games have more beneficial effects than other types of video games. This team was researching for the last 15 years based on brain, perception, attention and reaction time. 

“We decided to assemble all the relevant data from 2000 to 2015 in an attempt to answer this question, as it was the only way to have a proper overview of the real impact of action video games,” explained Daphné Bavelier, professor in the Psychology Section at UNIGE’s Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE).

They concluded that

  1. The cognition of gamers was better than that of non-gamers in real life. They are more active in real life and even did better in educational institutions but it has to be a moderate level of playing not addiction.

  2. Proves the consequence of action games on the brain and paves the way for playing action video games to enhance cognitive capabilities.

  3. Playing action video games develop less grey matter in gamers hippocampus, an important part of the brain. The smaller the hippocampus becomes, the bigger the risk of causing brain illnesses and diseases like depression to PTSD and Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia.

  4. Action video games players are more goal driven than any other games in the world.

Still there are different studies going on in the world for video gamers. Everyday they are getting different positive results from their research.



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